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nail cleaner (profile)
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Anna Tyacke, 2017-04-28 10:31:40
Title
nail cleaner (profile)
Description
English: Cast copper alloy Roman nail cleaner. It is simple in form, with an elongated leaf-shaped blade culminating in a forked point. The suspension loop sits at a right-angle to the plane of the blade and is pierced with a small, circular hole at the apex that is 2 m in diameter. The blade is flat in section with a plain undecorated back and a decorated face consisting of a circular wheel motif surrounding a punched dot on the widest part of the blade, an undulating decorative border around the edges of the blade and an engraved line leading up the blade from the centre of the forked tip.

Two very similar examples from excavations in Colchester are illustrated by Crummy (1983) on page 58, fig.62, nos.1872 & 1874 which are classified as her Type 2a, which all have leaf-shaped blades. Most nail cleaners of this type date from the mid to late 1st century AD with some probably continuing into the 2nd century (ibid., 58).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Dorset
Date between 50 and 150
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FindID: 843171
Old ref: CORN-88C1B3
Filename: nailcleaner.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/612986
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/612986/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/843171
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Object location50° 49′ 39.36″ N, 2° 06′ 39.6″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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